Stay Healthier Outside

Second stage of the project

Youth exchange: Adventure to live

Georgia,Gombori 19/05/2017 28/05/2017

Project hosted by SOF Italy and ICPI under Erasmus+ programme

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

GOMBORI, GEORGIA
20 27 . 05 . 2017

Adventure to Live is a stimulating outdoor camp that gives participants several inputs related
to healthy lifestyle and outdoor practices. Objectives of the youth exchange include, but are
not limited to increased respect and care towards their health; the experience and importance
of being in nature as an important component of maintaining a healthy lifestyle; stretching of
the mind, body and sociality; motivation and input in reflecting on one's personal level of
lifestyle and competencies in outdoor activities. We will show participants that, without special
lessons and lectures, it is possible to gain competencies on how to live well with the help of
outdoor activities, while enforcing the will of youngsters in enrolling in healthy lifestyle
practices and outdoor activity and to become promoters of these among their personal and
professional networks.
Activities will vary from group to individual, from moving to staying, from practical to talkative,
in order to satisfy all learning styles and to stimulate participants completely. Participants will
be considered an active part of the project and will be protagonist of its realization.
This call is exclusive for the Youth Exchange in Georgia .

Youth Exchange "ADVENTURE TO LIVE"

19st MAY is arrival day, 28th May is departure day
"Stay Healthier Outside" is a two-stage project that aims to promote a healthy lifestyle among
youth workers (training course) and youngsters (youth exchange) coming from the EU (Italy,
Romania, Turkey, Poland) and the EECA region (Lebanon, Armenia, Ukraine, Georgia).

"ADVENTURE TO LIVE" is an intensive and stimulating outdoor camp that gives participants
several inputs related to healthy lifestyle and outdoor initiatives and practices. Objectives of
the youth exchange include:
- Increase of respect and care toward health;
- Experience and importance of being in contact with nature and the environment as a means
for feeding a healthy lifestyle;
- Stretching of mind, body and sociality;
- Motivation and input in reflecting on personal level of lifestyle and competencies in outdoor
activities;
- To show participants that without special lessons and lectures it is possible to develop
competencies on how to live well through appreciation of nature and interacting in the natural
environment;
- Encourage healthy lifestyle practices through outdoor activity, and to become a promoter of
these among their personal and professional networks;
- Promotion of inter cultural curiosity and appreciation of diversity;
- Stretching of personal limits in order to self-develop;
- For group leaders, development of facilitation competencies);
- Opportunity to learn and share participants experiences in the field of health and outdoors.

PARTICIPANTS' PROFILE
Adventure to Live: The second part of the program will have 42 . Participants in this
program will be selected according this characteristics:
- Be active members of their organization;
- Have some experience in outdoor/scout methods;
- Be healthy enough to participate in the outdoor activities
- Be aware of what camping is and understand the lifestyle change it engenders (i.e. no private
bathroom, shared showers, lack of comfort, no internet, etc.)
- Have a real interest in healthy lifestyle and outdoor activity;
- Want to improve their quality of life and increase their competencies in the outdoors;
- Identify something that they would like to change in their lifestyle as a result of this youth
exchange;
- Have at least an intermediate level of English;
- Age preference: 18-30 (group leader can be any age).
During the youth exchange selection process, priority will be given to participants with fewer a
socio-economic opportunities, and those with a strong desire to learn new perspectives from
interaction with nature. It is proven that youngsters coming from low socio-economic
communities tend toward more unhealthy lifestyles and lifestyle choices.
SOF NGO and ICPI strongly support a gender balance among participants
Criteria for selecting group leaders of the youth exchange, among those youth workers
applying during the training course, are:
- motivation and objective for covering that role;
- contribution they can give to the group as leaders and to participants of the exchange;
- previous experience as group leader or in delivering sessions;
- outdoor skills and lifestyle habits (i.e. we would not recommend to choose somebody that
smokes);

- cooperating, involving, team working, delivering competences.

INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PEACE AND INTEGRATION (ICPI) will be hosting organization in
Georgia for 42 participants as following in table:

Country
ITALY
Romania
Turkey
Lebanon
Poland
Armenia
Ukraine
Georgia

Number of participants
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU?

Prepare for intercultural evenings by bringing from home:

- some dry/ready traditional food and drinks;
- five A4 pictures of famous locations of your country and five
usually unknown;
- three objects representing your nation;
- a curious story/legend/event in history;
- one traditional song and dance (you can actually sing and dance);
Bring materials that are needed to carry out certain activities:
- sleeping bag;
- flashlight;
- a board game;
- old t-shirt;
- camera;
Medicines: For preventive reasons we recommend for those who may have health
problems to bring their own medicines for all your stay;

 Bring your own towels and personal cosmetics such as shampoos, gel, toothpaste, etc.;
Cultural evenings will be organize during the YE where all the countries will present their
culture (dances, songs, and typical food).
Every participant from each country must be involved
in the cultural presentations. We ask you to make it
interactive (involving other participants): you can
make a quiz, organize competitions, play typical games,
teach a dance or a song, etc.
Projector(s), maps are not to be used for presentations,
and there are no facilities for preparing food in the hotel
kitchen so please come ready with cooked food items.
Please bring information (leaflets, posters) about your organization as you will need it
in order to present your NGO. It will be a good way of establishing contacts;
Any dictionaries you might need for a smoother communication in English.

SPECIAL NEEDS
If you have special needs such as vegetarian food, food allergies, food intolerance, etc., we
would like you to formulate these in details to sofngo@gmail.com ICPI.Georgia@gmail.com
We will do our best to arrange all things with the venue.

ABOUT ACCOMMODATION
Concerning Gombori or the closest countryside, the camping
area is a free location. The space is wind-protected and offers
both sunny and shaded land. About 10 mins from the camping
there is a small lake where it is possible to swim. At the same
distance, a tiny river offers drinkable water. There are shared
toilets and sun-showers set by the staff. A generator provides the electricity needed for
activities. Participants and staff will overnight in high quality tents (3-4 persons each) which are
water and stretch resistant. Participants, through some workshops, will provide their own
benches, cooking places and tables by their own construction with the assistance of the staff.
There will be two big tents, one dedicated to sessions and one for dining. There will also be an
open-air fire space around which many activities will take place.

INTERCULTURAL EVENING

During project we planned to arrange the Intercultural evening. You will

present your own cultures national, regional, personal or any kind of
culture you feel you belong. This presentations/activity should not be
just a lecture so try to find most creative way to show your culture. It
means that all options are possible. A culture may be presented by a
song, games, a story, poem, dance, some local special drinks or food,
etc. So, please bring a flag of your country, some traditional food, drinks and other stuff that
you consider relevant.

TRAVEL TIPS: There are airports both in Kutaisi (3hours by bus) and Batumi (half an hour),
close to the venue of the project. If you cannot find cheap tickets for
those airports, you can look for Tbilisi international airport. You will
receive further information on how reach the venue of the project by
email

SUPPORT Spot:

If you arriving to Tbilisi international airport, you can find a support spot at our social bar
Generator 9.8 and leave there your luggage for a while.
How to reach Generator9.8: Exit the airport and go to the bus stop in front of the airport (it is
really small) and jump on the bus 37.
Ticket machine is on the bus (we use LARI (GEL), ticket costs 0.50 Lari,you can exchange
money in the airport and keep coins with you for a ticket).
Get out of the bus stop which is in city center, called Baratashvili street (Kolmeurneoba)
according to the web page calculation it takes maximum 50 minutes. From there you walk way
of the Dry Bridge. (In Georgian it is called Mshrali Khidi) which is just 5 min from bus station.

There you can find a Generator 9.8 (address: Atoneli street 29). If you arrive at night, there are
no buses after 23:00. In that case there are two options: you wait till the morning at the airport
and then you will take bus or you do not wait and take taxi which cost maximum 25-30 GEL.

TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT DETAILS

Please keep your ORIGINAL invoices, receipts, tickets, boarding-passes or any other transport
document.
Be careful, since without these documents, we could not reimburse your travel costs!

LIMIT FOR TRAVEL COST FOR YOUTH EXCHANGE IN GEORGIA

Country
Italy
Romania
Turkey
Lebanon
Poland
Armenia
Ukraine
Georgia

Travel grant per participant

270
170
170
170
270
80
170
20

! Note: Please note if you bought your ticket in your local currency which might be different
than EURO, we will calculate your travel costs according to the exchange rates from official
European Commission web-site: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/inforeuro/index.cfm?Language=en

!! Note: TAXI service won't be remboursed.

!!! Note: Please make sure you have return tickets for all stages of your travel (return plane
tickets, return bus tickets, etc.). Reimbursement will be given only on the basis of an existing
ticket. No advance reimbursement for future tickets will be given.
!!! Note: Be aware that regarding your flights itinerary, excess /additional luggage will not be
refunded

*DRAFT WEEKLY PLAN

ARRIVAL DAY 19 MAY (Participants should arrive already in Georgia)
Participants meet a staff member at the Station Square and from there, by bus, they all
go to the venue of the YE (Gombori Range). Get to know each other in informal way.
Informal evening and Welcome party
Day 1: 20 MAY
Theme of the day: Lets start
Ice Breaking Exercises & name games
Rules of the YE; Comfort, Stretching, Panic Zones
Session and Workshop on Youthpass
The Iron Curtain
Day 2: 21 MAY
Theme of the day: Buildings structures
"From the first stage with love"
Challenges of outdoor activities connected to healthy lifestyle
Forest Game
Night around the fire
Day 3: 22 MAY
Theme of the day: Fire
Workshop on cooking on fire
Walk to Gombori Lake
"The Red Flower"
Day 4: 23 MAY
Theme of the day: healthy lifestyle and good practices of outdoor
Announcement of outdoor
Living Library: Good and bad experiences of outdoors and lifestyles
Social Night
Day 5: 24 MAY
Theme of the day: Adventure is coming
Preparation Outdoor mission
Sharing the outdoor;
Working on individual Youth-pass

Day 6: 25 MAY
Theme of the day: Outdoor mission
Day 7: 26 MAY
Theme of the day: back space and time
Sharing and Evaluation the outdoor
Self evaluation and goal setting
Final Evaluation

Day 8: 27 MAY

Theme of the day: Looking to the future

Future projects and making the impact planning
Erasmus+ and Youth-pass sum-up
Luggage Closing and coming to Tiblisi
Traditional Georgian dinner

DEPARTURE DAY 28 MAY

* Please be aware that activities in the weekly plan can be changed according to the needs of
the participants

PARTICIPATING ORGANISATION
If you want to participate in this project, you are requested to contact sending organization
from your country, via the following email address:
SOF ITALY, ITALY (APPLICANT)
sofngo@gmail.com
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR PEACE AND INTEGRATION (ICPI), GEORGIA (PROJECT
COORDINATOR)
ICPI.Georgia@gmail.com
gocha1gelashvili@gmail.com
FUNDACJA INICJATYW SPOLECZNYCH, POLAND
Fis@fis.org.pl
ASOCIATIA TINERILOR ACTIVI CIVIC, ROMANIA
atac.romania2010@gmail.com laurpetrea@gmail.com
"YOUTH BREATH" YOUTH SUPPORT NGO, ARMENIA
anijanyan@gmail.com
ULUSLARARASI GENCLIK DERNEGI, TURKEY
fatihgokyildiz34@gmail.com
NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION "UNIT", UKRAINE
helen.manko@gmail.com
WORLD YOUTH ALLIANCE MIDDLE EAST, LEBANON
jessica@wya.net